Local mirrors and stuff…
December 1, 2007 by sankarshan · Leave a Comment
Last time there was a talk about connection quality is a hindrance towards encouraging FOSS contributions – it was hotly disputed. However, this is a step towards proving that wrong.
As an aside, check this front page.
From my meta-blog- Who is a MapMyIndia product user ?Sometimes I wonder how websites that are supposedly used by a large client base get away with being stupid. The recent case being MapMyIndia. If one selects a product that allows an “e-download” (read that as electronic download) one receives a download link in the e-mail. The goofiness is that it does not specify the […]
- An old songI spent some time yesterday rummaging through my collection of music. The actual intent was to search for an elusive recording of Layla (live at some concert). I have this fascinating obsession with the song and end up listening to various versions of it through the years including some cover versions where I’d have gladly […]
- Being sick and other such mundane stuffI don’t like being sick. I am sure that no one does. But in my case it makes me a heavily cranky person. Especially so because irrespective of the reason I am sick I get these persistent headaches that make reading anything off the screen a distasteful exercise. And, if like me, anyone else does […]
- Who is a MapMyIndia product user ?
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More Photos - Books on my bookshelf
- The Toss of a Lemonauthor: Padma Viswanathan name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.40 book published: 2008 rating: 2 read at: date added: 2010/09/02 shelves: review: […]
- Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Timeauthor: Howard Schultz name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.66 book published: 1997 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2010/09/02 shelves: review: […]
- 7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Artauthor: Devdutt Pattanaik name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.50 book published: 2009 rating: 2 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haleyauthor: Malcolm X name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.28 book published: 1965 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
- The Silmarillionauthor: J.R.R. Tolkien name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.59 book published: 1977 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
- Schindler's Listauthor: Thomas Keneally name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.16 book published: 1982 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
- The Toss of a Lemon
- What I recently said
- sankarshan: The EPW beta site http://beta.epw.in/home/ looks way better than the existing one :) Time to shift I guess.
- sankarshan: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/09/01/#20100901-gpl_enforcement [..] and a very surreal but important case (Harald Welte's blog)
- sankarshan: @Airtel_Presence what's wrong with this message ? The date/time is being set to yesterday anyway. http://twitpic.com/2kfx6n
- sankarshan: @suddentwilight Indeed.What's life without a little respact (sic) ? :D
- sankarshan: @suddentwilight The portal needs an online dictionary and spelling checker plugin for the input forms :)
- sankarshan: @runa_b Follow that list.It is mighty entertaining :)
- sankarshan: @Airtel_Presence I'm on the DND and yet I get calls from 9970403066 promoting Airtel post-paid plans.How does that happen ?
- sankarshan: https://fedorahosted.org/security-spin/wiki/availableApps : list of available apps for the Fedora Security Lab Spin.Give the spin a try :)
- sankarshan: PuneLUG meeting on04Sep2010 has a session about teaching kids of 7th/8th standard programming using Alice and other FOSS tools.
- sankarshan: http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ReadingandSugar-en-2010.07.12-00.46.21.pdf (PDF link) Reading And Leading With Sugar.Recommended.
- Word of the day
- bilocation: Dictionary.com Word of the Daybilocation: the state of being or the ability to be in two places at the same time. […]
- bilocation: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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